Week 392 – Latest victim leaves vital clue, but will it be enough!

Latest victim leaves vital clue, but will it be enough!

The headline gave Calico a little hope as she sat in the uncomfortable chair in the small interview room at the police station. If the cops could find who the killer was then maybe she could let go of the guilt that plagued her.

Garret said it wasn’t her fault, and logically she understood that. If the killer was her ex then she wasn’t responsible for his actions, only he was. But she didn’t feel it. It felt like this was all because of her. All because she hadn’t seen a future with her boyfriend and ended things.

When the door opened and two detectives walked in, Garret reached over and picked up her hand, entwining their fingers together. She felt his strength, his support, his determination to be there for her and it helped more than she could say.

“Good morning, ma’am, thank you for coming down here to speak with us,” the older of the detectives, a woman who appeared to be in her mid fifties.

“Of course. If it’s Derek then I want him to be found and punished,” she said, straightening in her seat.

“I thought your ex was deceased,” the other detective, a man who looked to be around her age, said.

“Thats what I was told, but … there was no body,” she explained. Part of her had always wondered if he was still out there somewhere, she wanted to believe he was dead, but how could she when there was no body for her to see and verify for her own peace of mind?

“Your ex kidnapped you?” the woman asked.

“He grabbed me one night when I was getting home from work. He took me to his house and chained me to his bed,” she replied, her voice wavering just a little. “He was angry I tried to leave, told me I was his and he wasn’t letting me go. Not ever. He hit me and … did other stuff,” she said, unable to say the words out loud.

“Rumor is you guys found something,” Garret spoke up.

The male cop gave a nod. “Something was left hidden under the clothes of the latest victim. Like she was trying to tell us something.”

“It was this,” the female said, holding out an evidence bag.

Calico’s hand was shaking as she reached out to take it, and as soon as she saw what was in it she knew. Her ex wasn’t dead and he was a serial killer taking out her colleagues one by one, before he came for her.

Because there was not a doubt in her mind that eventually she would be his final victim.